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Earthquakes and Gardens

Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus
By Virginia Burrus
Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
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Earthquakes and Gardens explores themes of ruination, resilience, and spirituality inspired by a brief passage in Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion. Virginia Burrus reflects on the ruins of an earthquake-devastated city and a haunted garden in fourth-century Cyprus, weaving personal and geological perspectives. The essays meditate on destruction, resurgence, grief, and consolation, ultimately reimagining religion as a practice that embraces uncertainty and nurtures mutual flourishing with the earth and its deities.
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Ideal for readers interested in religion, spirituality, literary studies, and environmental humanities, especially those drawn to meditative essays on place, history, and the more-than-human world.

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Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.

In Jerome’s Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more-than-human worlds—the earth and its gods—that surround us.

Moving between the personal and geological, Earthquakes and Gardens ruminates on destruction and resilience, ruination and resurgence, grief and consolation in times of disaster and loss. Ultimately, Burrus’s close readings reimagine religion as a practice that unsettles certainty and develops mutual flourishing.

Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion

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Described as "exquisite, mystifying, and inspirational" by The Christian Century, the book is praised for its tender reflections on care, fragility, and belonging by Catherine Michael Chin of UC Davis. Catherine Keller of Drew University highlights its "captivatingly beautiful" and multidimensional approach that charts a spiritual geography beyond disciplinary boundaries. Burrus's lyrical prose offers a provocative rethinking of history, myth, and place.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226824567

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 35 halftones

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 286g

Pages: 208

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion Virginia Burrus

About the Author

Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden professor of religion at Syracuse University. She is the author of many books, including Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things.

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